Finger ring



Aug? 13, 2 H. M. DAYTON ET AL 1,724,130

FINGER RING Filed Dec. 4, 1928 gwumtow IVA flay'i n as,

Patented Aug. 13, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FINGER RING.

Application filed December 4, 1928. Serial No. 323,621.

This invention relates to finger rings and particularly to binary rings,that is, a ring composed of two joined rings.

The general object of our invention is to ti provide an engagement and awedding ring, the wedding ring being so constructed that it will fitagainst and may be joined to the engagement ring and be inseparablethere from, thus symbolizing the inseparable j oinlo ing of two personsby the wedding ceremony.

Ordinarily a wedding ring and'engagement ring are separate rings and asa consequence of the fact that the engagement ring usually supports arelatively large bezel and stone, the wedding ring is held on the fingerseparated from the engagement ring and there is a space seen between therings and the two rings do not present a neat m appearance upon thefinger. It has been proposed to modify the form of the engagement ringso that the wedding ring may be worn closely adjacent to or joined tothe engagement ring but this requires that the engagement ring shall bemodified from its ordinary or usual form and the engagement ring at thebezel or at the junction of the crown setting and the body of the ringshall be extended outward so that the wedding ring may fit beneath theprojecting portion of the bezel or the jewel prongs.

Engagement rings to-day are of such designs as not to permit this'undueprojection of the jewel supporting portion of the en-' gagement ring.

The object of the present invention is to provide for combining awedding ring with an engagement ring and to modify the wedding ring sothat it may be fitted against and interfit with a modern form ofengagement ring without in any way altering the engagement ring itselfand specifically to cut away the wedding ring so as to form a recesswhich will receive the j ewel supporting portion of the engagementringer any lateral projection at this point, thus permitting the weddingring to fit snugly against the engagement ring and permit it to besoldered or pinned thereto or engaged therewith by m screws.

.Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, whereinFigure 1 is aside view of a ring constructed in accordance with ourinvention;

Figure 2 is an edge elevation ofa combined wedding ring and engagementring;

Figure 3 is a section on the line-3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Flgure 2. 7

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates the wedding ring and 11 theengagement ring. This may be of any suitable or usual it'orm such as iscommonly used today and 1t 1s shown as being widened at 12 to form asupport or crown setting for the jewel 13. Thus the jewel supportingportion of the engagement mug is relatively wide while the band 11 ofthe ring proper is relatively narrow.

The wedding ring 10 is of any usual or sultable design but in order thatthe wedding ring may lie flat against the side of the engagement ring,the wedding ring is cut away at 14: to an extent suificient to receivethe crown setting 12 and fit closely thereinto. Ifthe engagementeventuates in a weddin the wedding ring is slipped upon the bride hfinger against the engagement ring and later the wedding ring issoldered, pinned or attached by screws to the engagement ring. We do notwish to be limited to any particular means for attaching the weddingring to the engagement ring but we have illustrated in the sectionalView in Figure 3 the nedding ring as being attached to the engagementrmg by means of pins or screws 15, the use of screws permitting the tworings to be readily detached if desired. We do not wish to be limited tothe number of these screws used. In place of pins or screws, the tworings may be soldered to each other either around the entire extent ofthe rings or at intervals.

It is entirely possible with our invention to have the wedding ringandthe engagement ring sold together so that the weddin ring willconform in design and in the con ormation of the recess 14 exactly tothe shape and structure of the engagement ring, though on the other handit is entirely possible for the jeweller to keep wedding rings cut outto fit certainforms of engagementrings and to afterwards fit the weddingring to the em gagement ring. Obviously the .drawing is merely anillustration of the principle of our I invention and the invention may,of course, be embodied in a large number of different designs or forms.

It will be seen that our construction is particularly advantageous inthat the engagement ring, which is for a longer or shorter pe'riodwornseparate from the wed- Q ding ring, is' not modified in any way and thatit is only the wedding ring which is modified and inasmuch as this ringis immediately worn with the en a ement rin this cut-aw? portion or moification of 1t throughout and having a flat side face, the

band being provided at one point with a crown setting laterallyprojecting beyond the side faces of the ring in combination with awedding ring forme to provide a band of the same cross sectional areathrou hout having a flat side face adapted to t against the flat sideface of the first named ring and cut away at one point to receive thelaterally projecting portion of the crown settin In testimony whereof wehereunto a x our HENRY M. DAYTON. NELLIE DAYTON.

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